Quotes on Fool

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?